Mazda all in on EVs – 13 new models by 2025

June 18, 2021June 25, 2021 Stephen Corby 4225 Views ev, Mazda CX-30, Mazda CX-5, Mazda PHEV, Mazda2, PHEV

For a long time, Mazda didn’t seem that interest in EVs – indeed if you asked their senior people about electrification a few years ago their response was that they were more interested in improving fuel economy in the cars people were actually buying – but it looks like the brand is now desperate to catch up, after revealing a raft of electrified models it will deliver in the next decade.

And the company is going to move fast, with five new hybrids, five PHEVs and three new pure BEV models by 2025.

Mazda, which has already got the MX-30 full EV and mild hybrid in the Australian market, will start rolling out its new model offensive as soon as next year, with full EVs, plug-in-hybrids and mild hybrids filtering across the entire model range.

Mazda calls its plan the Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030 roadmap, and it will involve the unveiling of a new Skyactiv Multi-Solution Scalable Architecture, which will allow Mazda to launch a total of five hybrid models, five plug-in hybrid models and three new pure BEVs by 2025.

Mazda says “100 percent of our products will have some level of electrification, and our EV ratio will be 25 percent by 2030”. For a company that had no EVs even on the books as little as five years ago, it’s an impressive turn of speed.

According to MotorFan, a Japanese website, those three EVs could be new version of the Mazda2 city car, the in-betweener SUV crossover CX-30 and the hugely popular Mazda CX-5.

Mazda is also developing a rotary engine to act as a range extender, starting with the MX-30.

“The Sustainable Zoom Zoom 2030 vision places the individual at the centre of three areas. The planet, society and humanity,” says Mazda.

“We will continue to follow our human-centered development philosophy, which values the humanity and inherent potential of people, into a future where carbon neutrality and CASE (Connectivity Autonomy Sharing and Electrification) are defining the industry.

“By providing vehicles that support people in realising their full potential, we aim to realise a sustainable and compassionate society.”

Stephen Corby

Stephen is a former editor of both Wheels and Top Gear Australia magazines and has been writing about cars since Henry Ford was a boy. Initially an EV sceptic, he has performed a 180-degree handbrake turn and is now a keen advocate for electrification and may even buy a Porsche Taycan one day, if he wins the lottery. Twice.